Title Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and international relations : theory and ethnic conflict / Hannes Černy

Edition First edition Published London : Routledge, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Exeter studies in ethno politics Exeter studies in ethno politics. Contents Concepts, Models and Frameworks -- Beyond Groupism -- State Formation and the Origins of Kurdish Ethno-nationalism in Turkey and Iraq -- The Parties -- The Origins of Relations -- Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK in the 1990s -- Iraqi Kurdistan and the PKK in the post-2003 Middle East -- Iraqi Kurdistan, the PKK and Turkey -- The Kurds in the War against ISIS Summary Due to its primacy in explaining issues of war and peace in the international arena, the discipline of International Relations (IR) looms large in analyses of and responses to ethnic conflict in academia, politics, and popular media - in particular with respect to contemporary conflicts in the Middle East. Grounded in constitutive theory, this book challenges how ethnic/ethno-nationalist conflict is represented in explanatory IR by deconstructing its most prominent state-centric models, frameworks and analytical concepts. As much a critique of contemporary scholarship on Kurdish ethno-nationalism as a detailed analysis of the most prominent Kurdish ethno-nationalist actors, the book provides the first in-depth investigation into the relations between the PKK and the main Iraqi Kurdish political parties from the 1980s to the present. It situates this inquiry within the wider context of the ambiguous political status of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, its relations with Turkey, and the role Kurdish parties and insurgencies play in the war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. Appreciating these complex dynamics and how they are portrayed in Western scholarship is essential for understanding current developments in the Iraqi and Syrian theatres of war, and for making sense of discussions about a potential independent Kurdish state to emerge in Iraq. Iraqi Kurdistan provides a comprehensive and critical discussion of the state-centric and essentialising epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies of the three main paradigms of explanatory IR, as well as their analytical models and frameworks on ethnic identity and conflict in the Middle East and beyond Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 14, 2017) Subject Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê. SUBJECT Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê fast Subject Ethnic conflict -- Iraq -- Kurdistān Nationalism -- Iraq -- Kurdistān Ethnic conflict -- Turkey Nationalism -- Turkey. Kurds -- Politics and government. International relations -- Philosophy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General. Ethnic conflict Ethnic relations International relations -- Philosophy Kurds -- Politics and government Nationalism Politics and government SUBJECT Kurdistān (Iraq) -- Politics and government Kurdistān (Iraq) -- Ethnic relations Turkey -- Ethnic relations Subject Iraq -- Kurdistān Turkey Form Electronic book ISBN 9781315560212 1315560216 9781317197584 1317197585 9781317197591 1317197593 9781317197577 1317197577

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